Stokesosaurus

Stokesosaurus (meaning "Stokes' lizard") is a genus of early tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaurs from the late Jurassic period of Utah, United States. They were small, bipedal predators measuring around in length.

==History== thumb|left|Estimated size of juvenile South Dakota specimen (blue) and the Stokesosaurus holotype (orange), compared to a human. thumb|left|Life reconstruction of Stokesosaurus clevelandi. From 1960 onwards Utah geologist William Lee Stokes and his assistant James Henry Madsen excavated thousands of disarticulated Allosaurus bones at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Emery County, Utah. During the early 1970s, Madsen began to catalogue these finds in detail, discovering that some remains represented species new to science. In 1974 Madsen named and described the type species Stokesosaurus clevelandi. Its generic name honours Stokes. The specific name refers to the town of Cleveland, Utah.